The album was a critical flop, and with dopy singles like "Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)" and the insufferable "Pink," the band looked and sounded inexcusably old. The tour, as you all know, was a disaster: Tyler injured a ligament after dropping a mic stand on his leg, and Joey Kramer suffered third-degree burns in a freak gas-station accident. The band canceled more than 40 shows.

Enfeebled and struggling, they could have grabbed at one last chance to bring it all to a dignified halt. Instead, they committed arguably their greatest musical felony the following year with the Dianne Warren–penned "I Don't Want To Miss a Thing." That bumped their crap bracket from annoying to unforgivable — of course, the track, being a #1 hit, was less of a break-up opportunity and more of a call for honorable artistic seppuku.

Review: Against Me! at Port City Music Hall My sophomore year in college I met a girl named Erin. She had bleached blonde spiky hair, tattoos, and a lip ring. She had spent the previous year hitchhiking around the country and while I was attending outdoor arena concerts, she was at basement punk shows.

PJ Harvey wants your fucking ass PJ Harvey's two albums with John Parish are not her best work. (Go ahead and argue it, if you like.) The first, Dance Hall At Louse Point , was a surprise departure from her game-changing To Bring You My Love , an album that sold far less than Madonna records but packed as much cultural impact -- back when rock albums and cultural impact were still on speaking terms.

The Big Hurt: 10-year glitch It boggles the mind that as recently as a decade ago, if you wanted to hear "Knockin' da Boots" by H-Town (and you did, believe me), you'd have to perform a primitive prayer ritual: you'd call some creepy guy with a really deep voice and beg him to play it, then wait by your radio for an hour in the hope that he'd answer your plea.

THE BIG HURT: DIVING IN THE PR DUMPSTER | February 26, 2013 I've been dumpster diving in the PR bin, the rankest receptacle of music industry waste, and I've come up with a dripping fistful of the month's hottest garbage.

THE BIG HURT: LEANIN' WITH BIEBS | February 20, 2013 Bieber was allegedly photographed sipping something from a double Styrofoam cup, in close proximity to a big bottle of codeine cough syrup. This can only add up to one thing: lean . That purple drank, the laudanum of Screw, the deadly nectar of Pimp C.